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A few months ago, at a dinner party, Alex and I were in a joking debate about one thing or another, and I insisted on my point: "But dolly, dolly!" Suddenly, I realized everyone was quiet. Was it weird that I was calling this bearded, deep-voiced man "dolly"?

Alex's nicknames for me pretty much change with the season. I was "baby" for a long time, then "foxy," then "munchkin," then "dubbas" (no idea), then "dollface," and right now, because of our approaching honeymoon, he's taken to calling me "doll-fahtzio," which he insists means "dollface" in Italian.

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My nickname changes pretty much every minute, and I've learned to answer to everything and anything hubby directs my way. These are the most common ones: Dooda, than Tuna, than Tuni, then Tunes, big Tunes, and sometimes, Tuna Fey (because I remind him of Liz Lemon).

My nickname is Molly, my real name is Maureen....don't ask me where it comes from, but sometimes I get called Mo...My blog name and etsy shop name are both from a childhood nickname, Good Golly, Miss Molly

We have so many, I can't even remember them all. I tend to call him whatever just comes out, but it is usually along the lines of boo, bubs, B. He calls me punkin, punkinhead, babe, bee, bee bee, on and on and on.

When I was younger, my sister used to call me three different nicknames: Eureka, Ooksie (not sure how to spell this one, but it's pronounced ooh-xs-ee), and Avocado - the latter I'm sure she only used to embarrass me seeing as how she screamed it at the top of her lungs in a crowded store once.

my boyfriend calls me 'Annie'. My middle name is Anne and I used to hate it, so he began calling me Anne, and Annie in order to pick on me. Now I absolutely love it, it's odd when he calls me by my first name!

My boyfriend used to call me kitten, now he changed it to piggy for no apparent reason haha, he also calls me love or beautiful...but I miss kitten. :DCongratulations on your wedding, and how exciting your honeymoon!! Hope you post pictures from the wedding

My husband is Charlie and I am Frankie. The first week we were together, we were sitting on my couch being silly, pretending we were little kids in a sandbox, and I asked him if he'd like to make sandcastles with me LOL! It's ridiculous but it makes us laugh :) Plus we get the chance to be humiliated by this story every time one of us accidentally calls the other by the nickname in public. Fun!

I love nicknames! I've been boca de égua (mare's mouth) and another word in Portuguese for "pooper." For him, I just like to scream his name "WILSON!" like in Cast Away, or I sometimes call him Wils, pooper, or pookie.

My husband started calling me "October" when we were dating. We started getting pretty serious during that month and while he was working the swing shift, he'd come to house for dinner every night. We'd sit and eat, with the pretty autumnal colors right outside my window. It was then when we fell in love and he's called me "October" ever since.

that just made me smile so big. i love that you call him dolly & i love that your nickname changes with the season. you two are so sweet. : )

my nickname has always been Anna Banana or when i was a kid my dad & i would call eachother either "fat" or "ugly". like when he got home from work i would say "hi fat" and he would say "hi ugly!" i just remembered that we did that-- i was probably around 3 or 4... i loved it.

My husband and I share the same nickname - 'Sweet.' We've been calling each other this since we were married, about five years ago now. So it's 'sweet this, and sweet that.' Even when we're mad at each other, it's still 'sweet' but it's pronounced much tighter and sarcastically. If he ever calls me by my given name, it startles me as it makes me feel distanced from him.

When I was little my family called me Kimmy Kimmy Coco Puff due to my daily habit of eating a big bowl of said breakfast cereal. And since my sister and I are twins we've always been called Thing 1 and Thing 2.My best friends and I also have nicknames for each that vary greatly - theres too many to list! =)

In my family, I've been called "Sissy" because I'm the oldest girl. I've also been called the usual nicknames by the rents, like pumpkin and sweetie. Ha, an uncle used to call me "Grandma Willy" when I was very little. Have absolutely no clue where that came from.

In past relationships I've been called "Odi" like the dog from Garfield. Yeah, doesn't seem flattering, but at the time I thought it was adorable. Also, most commonly, "babe" by a friend of mine. But he calls everyone that so it's not specific to myself.

Awesome post! I can't stop calling my children "Pumpkin." Hasley was a nickname given to me by a friend years ago (he put together my first name, Leslie, w/ my last names and mixed them up a bit) and I love it.

I never really end up with a nickname, sometimes I get called AH! because those are my initals or Eye-Bees because that's what I call eye balls but those are rarely used. I call my boyfriend Meatball (he's Italian) and CPG (his initials).

My nickname since I was in 7th grade has been Ace. Most of my teachers through college and high school have called me Ace. Most of my friends know me as Ace and in fact at my high school graduation they called me as Ace. It all started because people would always mispronounce my name, Aislinn(pronounced Ashlinn), as Acelinn. So it stuck. My mom though calls me Ash and my ex always called me Bella which he said is what italians call their girlfriends, he is italian.

My husband has nick names for everyone- but they are the same for everyone- guys are "tiger" women are "Sweets"...I thought that that was my name from him until I realized that he used it for everyone including waitresses we had no previouse relationship with...also his memory is not brilliant so nicknames that sound endearing bail him out when he can not remember names...he calls me "Sweets" when he can not rmember my name...I call him many things...

My boyfriend and have a slew of nicknames in our arsenal. Some of my friends call me Cokes or Coco, he's picked them up too. Along with Baby, Cokie, CokieMokie, Schmoosh, and the most recently-created: Mocol. Yeah, I don't know where that one came from.

Well, most often I hear baby, boo, love, babe... things along those lines... But every once in a while I hear E-money, pat-rice (he thinks he's funny messing with my middle name) and E. McG.... I think those are his gangsta names for me...

My name is Sabrina, and I'm called Brina to my family and many of my friends--which I quite like. My family also sometimes calls me Breener or Breener Reener--both twists on my nickname which are silly but kind of embarrassing in front of strangers...

Sometimes people try to call me Sabz, and I reallllly am not a fan of that. I try to nip it right in the bud if someone tries it!

My boyfriend simply calls me Sweetie, which I like because it's more personal than Babe but not as sickly sweet as Baby (which only my mom and best friend may call me ever).

My boyfriend always comes up with new nicknames for me. ... His latest favorite is Penguin ... but hes called me Chimichanga (I don't know how to spell it ... Like the food haha ...), Pumpernickel, Munchkin ... I don't know where he gets these from. I just call him baby haha ...

So I am posting a comment for the first time (even though I read your blog religiously)...yikes! I'm horribly nervous that mine wont be witty or clever but I couldn't resist since my husband and I have quite a few nicknames as well of which are well rather ridiculous but we love them! I call him "Silly, sills, goose, and doodie (I know gross, but when you say it very sweet :)). He calls me babe, jules, queen (hee hee...no, not really the last one).

my boyfriend calls me "baby" and it's the only time that I haven't been totally grossed out by that term. usually it just sounds so tacky, but he could probably call me anything and it'd make my heart skip.

occasionally I jokingly call him "babe" because when he met me I lived in Los Angeles and we kid about me being a California girl.

My nickname is Burgaloo. My name is Danielle, yet all my friends call me Dee. My boyfriend started calling me Dz's Burger and then the Dz's was dropped and for a period of time I was just Burger. Then basketball playoffs were on and I developed a crush on player named Hedo Turkoglu. My boyfriend turned Burger into Burgaloo to sound similar to Turkoglu. I call my boyfriend Fry.

My husband and I used to be anti-pet names. Then we jokingly started calling one another snuggle bunny. Then it morphed to Bunnie. And so it is, we have called each other Bunnie for seven years. It sickens people to the highest degree!

My name is Ariel and my dad calls me super ariel or air bear or super bear. i dont know why. my ex and i used to call each other llama or genius llama or llama ramma. my long standing nickname with my bff though is glen coco. two for you glen coco! I get called "heeepster" a lot now because an Italian boy I was with couldn't pronounce hipster, which was his nickname for me.

omg, i love that you use dolly. i call my bf by some very girly nicknames that i really hope i never use in public...such as: babesers and sugarpie. it is possible i have been known to say baby bear, but will never officially admit to it ;) To him i am babes.

My mom used to call me Munchkin when I was a toddler, too. But the one that stuck was "Muffy" which has over the years evolved into "Muff". My husband now uses "Muff" as well, only because he finds it so funny. "Muffy" conjures either '80s prep school girls or upper East Side matrons, and I am the farthest thing from a Muffy you'll ever see. That said, I'm rather fond of it.

Ha! My husband's nicknames for me change all the time and as one reader wrote on here I basically just know that he's talking to me he calls them out. Usually they come out when he comes home from work: I say: "Hi cutes!" (my name for him) and he responds with any one of the following: "Hi: ..." "Jim", "Jimbob", "chips", "tips", "tipsheet", "chomper", "chomps" -- really I have no idea where he comes up with this stuff... there are many more but I won't bore you ;)

Years ago, whilst perusing a friend's bookcase during a dinner party, my husband came across a Celtic book of names in which he discovered the meaning of my name to be "Beloved Elf". So I have been "Elf" ever since.

Of course, my father affectionately called me 'knothead", so Elf is much more preferable indeed.

My bf calls me Mac Mini (courtesy of Apple). My name is Minnie which is where the nickname comes from. As a gift to him, I got him a Mac Mini! He was so thrilled. He also calls me "my salmon". I love salmon which is where that one came from. I like both names because not many people get called those names.

My brother called my Ga-ga when he was little. I have no idea where he gets this stuff. But, my best friend calls me Chinchilla.....a very, very long story! My husband calls me "bebe" with kind of an evil guy with a mustache voice like from Family Guy.

My mom calls me Bean, which started many years ago when I was about two. I gave myself the name Teeni for some reason, which became Teeni Beeni, and then evolved to Bean. So, eighteen years later, it's stuck.And, my sweet boyfriend calls me Sunshine.

My fiancee and I call each other versions of a word we made up: bompterton, bomps, bompers, bompity, bompface, etc. It's pretty odd I agree but it has stuck! And we make sure not to use these nicknames in public..

I call my boyfriend baby and mister mostly, but his names for me seem to change with the season too: right now I'm sweetso, but I also answer to freddy, freddy-head, momma, momma-bear, darling, sweetness...the list goes on and on! We never call each other our actual names, sounds totally foreign and strange when we do.

What an adorable post! It seems like my husband + I only call each other by nicknames now, because whenever we actually say one another's real name, it sounds odd. But our nicknames aren't nearly as creative as yours. I'll try dolly sometime and see what happens.

We call each other Schmoopy. It's from an episode of Seinfeld. It started as a joke and stuck. Together we are The Schmoops. We have variations on it: Schmoopus, Shoompa Loompa, Schmoopy my love etc...

My husband and I tend to just use our names. This is unfathomable to his parents who call each other Tops. Not as in "you're tops!," but as in top burger, a menu item from the diner in which they got engaged.

Nicknames - got to love 'em. Between the future husband and I, the one which has stuck the longest for me is 'BIRDIE' (inspired by this small fantail bird which followed us one day along a hike in New Zealand) and for the future husband it is 'DIG' - because he makes a living digging and cleaning up dirty soil.

Oh, you guys are just too adorable! My hub sometimes calls me "cakes" short for "bitchcakes" (as in "I don't know what I did to upset her, but she went all bitchcakes"). I don't really have a nickname for my husband, although he has kind of developed the nickname "Mr. Cheese" based on my blog name.

My sister calls me Marmie, my husband calls me Katie-bean. But our pet names for each other change frequently as we jokingly gain inspiration from things around us. After a trip to the grocery store, he was "Butternut Squash Fry" forever :)

I have a double name, so I've been AC to most of my family and even coworkers, but I'm Claire Bear to my hubby. I like nicknames but oddly don't really have one for him. My sister and some of my friends call me Cenna, from a high-school incident where my name was bizarrely misspelled on the back of a Key Club t-shirt.

Hahaha Dolly is an adorable nickname. My big sister has called me "Dollface" since I was a little girl. I had such pale skin, and a round face, that I looked like a porcelain doll. I just call my boyfriend "babe" -- so unoriginal... I know.

Holy moly, have I got a LOAD of nicknames for my beau, and he answers to every ONE of them. My favorites are as follows: Hammie ( hi middle name is Cunningham), Beetlefeet, Butterbean, Sugar Britches, HeartBeep, Peanut, Peanut Butter, Gosh, Joshmo, Baby, Beatbox, and Helen (for when he's being whiney).

My boyfriend just proposed to me on Saturday (hooray!), so currently our nickname for each other is "FAY-unce" (a dumbed-down phonetic cheesy version of "Fiancé"). Right now there's a whole lot of "Hey, Fay-unce" or "I heart my Fay-unce in the FACE" phrases floating around right now. The sappiness will wear off eventually, I promise.

Before that I was Kelsipants (my name is Kelsi), Kelsi-Pants-Face-Head, Gorgeous, Schmoopy, Oosh A Boo Boo, or sometimes just plain ol' Pants.

I call him Ryanpants (what's with the pants?), Mr. Ryan, Muffin Cup, Pookie-Bear-Muffin-Face-Head, and Rrrrrrryan with a rolled "R" like a Russian woman. LOTS of these stem from inside jokes.

I also had nicknames in school: Oscar (after a gold metallic pen exploded all over me and I looked like the award) and Rogue (from the X-Men comics, due to a crazy hair dye job).

goodness, i have a few... most of which are just plain strange: rachel (a friend insisted i didn't look like a natalie, but more like a rachel), nat, natti, natti-pants, nal pal, lalee, pasqualina (little easter in italian), boo boo (i'm ridiculously clumsy), dutchess, sis/sissy, two (my first college roommate was also natalie, so i was dubbed 'two' to tell the difference), tony (as in blair), and nat sherman (apparently a really good brand of cigar).

Clearly, I find delight in mortifying him! But he's always a good sport and doesn't seem to mind when the cute nicknames come out in public or among friends. Plus, he has plenty for me, too! (MamaBear is an obvious example)

Mom has called me Punkie ever since I was an infant. Dad calls me Bunny to this day (he says I have a bunny nose . . I disagree). As an adult, I try to keep it to Abby or Abigail- I work with refugees and they are so confused by nicknames!

Oh, how nice is to be 130 person, who comments your amazing blog. So, I must admit that your husband-to-be nicknames are simply sweet. My boyfriend has been calling me "kitty" for last few weeks, but it gonna change in a minute into something else, i think. Nicknames are so cute and funny. Love!

I did a post like this once! My hubby has so many nicknames for me that change almost monthly. Ones that have stuck around: Fergus, (no idea), Fenster, Bobbit (before the whole Lorena incident), Fench, Grouper, Grover and Clare-Lou

i love all the nicknames!! i thought i was all alone with my weird nicknames and nicknaming my kids weird things...mine in high school was sumo because i reminded my neighbor of a street fighter 2 character...then my parents call me bing which is short for bo bina weena...weird. and my daughter is avery but we call her munch and munchkin and munchalota and lot lot and then my daughter sawyer is sassy and sassarina batina and sass pot and pot and all kinds of crazy things!! i love this question!!!

hey J...this has nothing to dowith nick names, been following your blog for a over a year...just wanna say that you two are so adorable and your happiness makes me happy...i been thru some tough times with my hub and I really admire the cuteness between you guys...good luck, have a great wedding and a BETTER honeymoon and take care!kitkat

My husband has always had the most bizarre nicknames for me, but the one that has really stuck for the last 6 years is Weenis...or Baby Weenis. It is even my Mii name on the Wii, which is really embarrassing if we have new friends over and are playing it. I don't even know how it came about!

Faccio is face in Italian. Doll is bambola -- when I was in Italy, the guys I got to know really well called me "Bambolina" - or little doll.

I call my boyfriend "Jon-boy" but it's started just being "boy"... "hey Boy, you're cute, you know that?" or River...because once he starts talking, he can't stop...like a river.He keeps trying to find the perfect one for me. Nothing quite sticks yet, so I have many.

Sometimes he says, "Morning beautiful!" But really, his nickname for me is Floss. I asked him if it referred to candy floss or dental floss (he's an avid flosser) but he just grins and says it's something his dad would call his mum, though it's not her name. I've just started calling him Flick, just because I like the sound of Flick and Floss. Or if I'm teasing him, I shout, "Oi TWGWAG!" (pronounced twigwag), an acronym he devised to mock himself. Tall White Guy With Asian Girlfriend.

My husband has a million nicknames for me: Bub, bubby, Sunk, Sunkie, Baby, Babydoll, Darlin', Bubbles... it goes on and on. We also have a million names for our boys. A million of them! I don't think they even know what their 'real' name is.

My boyfriend started calling me Homey when we first started dating. After that we started calling eachother baby, with as much emphasis on the word as possible."Ready to go, BABY?"I think we both felt a little weird about pet names because we were friends for so long, so our solution was to give eachother jokey names.

my boyfriend is the nick name master. I sometimes call him sawyer to make fun of him. But other than that I have no nickname for him at all except for hon and we've been together for 4 years. I guess I am not very original when it comes to nicknames. I just can't think of a good one for him, I suppose I always thought one would just come at the right time but it hasn't yet.

My nickname changes with the seasons too...I'm boo, my love, blossom and now we have little ones "Mama Nic"...My husband only has a nickname! His real name is Donovan but he has NEVER been called that..always 'Doc'...I call him gorgeous, sweets or boo.

my best friend used to call babies/little children 'goobahllas'[don't ask me why]. so adam and i used to call each other that as it was another name for baby. it has evolved over the years..goobah to hoobah to now hoobs and boobs. [this is not pronounced like breasts but like hood and wood etc..] anyway adam also calls me hoobs-nation or nation for short and then we call each other monkey, monkey guts, monkey hoobas..the list of weirdo names goes on and on and on!!! but everyone knows us as hoobs n boobs

oh i love dolly! guess a psychologist would call it a bit castrating, but it's so lovely (and who cares about psychology, really...)my bf nicknames me moïno, or moïni (pronounced something like mo-ee-noh or mo-ee-nee), which is derived from moineau, which means sparrow in french! but he's restrained enough not to call me that too much in public, how nice of him!on the other hand, my main nickname for him is gri (pronounced gree), which is just a contraction of his first name (gregory). The shameful part is that i secretely (ie: in my head) started calling him that before we started dating because i already liked him so much!his other nickname is very man friendly, as its "mon loup", which means "my wolf": strangely enough, he loves it!love reading all the nicknames, it's really fun!

My husband calls me Shaetzi or liebling. The first one mean treasure and the second one means my love. When I was little my grandpa called me Kelly belly and my dad called me funny face after a cartoon-Ziggy.

OMG this whole post is too cute for words...I can't even take it! Paulie and I call each other "hon" 90% of the time. But, he does have some interesting nicknames for me that pop up from time to time, such as:

Nasty PantsLittle Ears Montgomery (apparently I have small ears)My Girl

Now, if you ever do a post on the nicknames people have for their dogs, watch out. You will officially think I am certifiably crazy! (Banana-Face Babushka is just one of them.)

the nickname my husband gives to me is "lulu" because of my first name wich is lucie.but other members of my family call me "chichi mangou": when I was a little girl, I can't tell my name (lucie marcoux), which was transformed into "chichi mangou".

have a page full list of only my nick names. official nick name being KAKU, i m usually also called kaks, k, kaa, kittu, kitty, cartoon, pinku, gypsy, dracula..and lots of other wierd ones. but my favourite one is Baby Cakes.original name Keerti.

we usually go with the typical "baby", but there is sometimes there is the good old bill cosby style nickname "puddin pop". one time we saw a little kid with a full diaper, and my boyfriend was like, aww look at that little "doodoobritches" and we laughed about it, saying how ridiculous of a nickname that was for anything... so sometimes, and only in public, he loves pulling that one out.

When I was little my whole family would call me Knickers. And I'm still Knickers when I'm around them (my name is Nicole, btw) but with my friends I am Admiral. It all started with my friends thinking my Dad looked like a pirate and calling him Captain. And then somehow I got turned into Admiral and it has stuck. My sister's name is Monica and I started calling her Demonica, and she hates it. I love saying it in public places. Also, I'm occasionally called Chaplin. But that's a long story.

I am a girl and my real name is Kyle. Sooooo when my boyfriend Brad and I first started dating he did not like telling his friends he was watching a movie with Kyle, so I was nick named Kitty! Five years later he stuck and so did the nickname.

Just like you Melinda, my brother found it hard to say my name (pronounced Mel-eena) so he calls me Mena. I have so many nicknames though. Let's see....my parents call me Beanie or Beanie Waddle without any reason. There's also Mimo; my older brother couldn't say my name either. Also M has become increasingly popular. My bf calls me Lovey. Secretly I wish my nickname was Mel. One day...

My husband calls me Katie Bips. I usually go by Kate but he started calling me Katie Beth along time ago (as I am Katharine Elizabeth) and I guess he just made it shorter. I think it's adorable, and it's my twitter handle. But now everyone on twitter thinks my name is Katie. Oh well...

i love this post. my bf calls me baby and baby beluga (google baby beluga then the full house clip from you tube). even though he's calling me a baby whale, i still think it's cute. :) happy wedding day.